Todd R. Weiss

HTC is preparing to launch an unlocked 128GB version of its latest flagship HTC U11 smartphone, which features innovative squeezable sides to control various functions, by accepting preorders for the new handset, which will sell for $729. The new model will include 6GB of RAM, which is an upgrade over the 4GB of memory included […]

Some 70 percent of the world’s population will be connected by mobile devices by 2022, up from 21 percent of the global population in 2013, according to a new study by Forrester Research. And with that approaching saturation of mobile devices, future global growth will likely be in the single digits. The seven-page study, “Forrester […]

Vertu, a British company which has been designing and selling high-end luxury smartphones starting at $6,900 for more than a decade, is being liquidated after failing to sell enough high-priced phones to pay its bills. The demise of Vertu was revealed in a July 13 story by BBC.com, after the company was bought by a […]

Sprint is expanding its annual smartphone upgrade programs to now include any smartphone the company markets instead of just Apple iPhone and Samsung Galaxy handsets. The new Sprint Flex and Sprint Deals programs, which were unveiled July 14, allow customers to lease and use a smartphone for 12 months and then switch to another device. […]

As Apple prepares to launch its latest iPhone models as expected September or so, a report recently surfaced that the company might start their pricing at $1,200, which is substantially higher than current iPhone 7 prices. Prices of some of the upcoming iPhone models—which could be called iPhone 8, but more likely will be labeled […]

Facebook-owned Oculus has for the second time this year reduced the price of its Rift VR headset and its Touch controllers, offering the Rift in a special summer deal for $399 with the hand controllers included at no extra charge. The company announced the special limited time pricing in a July 10 blog post touting […]

Samsung is reportedly building a voice-enabled speaker product that will feature the company’s Bixby voice-activated artificial intelligence engine in an effort to make some noise in a growing market that already has a wide range of competitors. Samsung’s plans, which were revealed by several people who are familiar with the project, have been in the […]

Virgin Mobile USA soon will sell Apple iPhones exclusively to customers who want to use its prepaid, no-contract cellular services, part of a marketing relationship it has established with Apple. To celebrate the changes, Virgin is offering a special $1 deal for 12 months of wireless services with the purchase of a new iPhone via […]

Chinese smartphone maker OnePlus has launched its latest Android phone, the OnePlus 5, which features a 5.5-inch full HD AMOLED touch-screen display with 1920×1080 resolution, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 octa-core processor and longer expected battery life than its former flagship model, the OnePlus 3T phone. The company unveiled the new handset in a June 20 […]

BlackBerry is adding new features to its 6-month-old BlackBerry Enterprise Mobility Suite, giving it enhancements that will now let users securely access business data on unmanaged Windows or iOS laptops while also enabling companies to apply user policies for Microsoft Office 365 mobile applications. The expanded capabilities were unveiled by BlackBerry on June 20. Using […]

The number of mobile device users around the world has grown to 5.035 billion, with the latest billion users being added in just the last four years, according to new statistics released by GSMA Intelligence, the research arm of the GSMA mobile services trade group. That means that 5 billion of the world’s 7.5 billion […]

Kodak has introduced its new Kodak Photo Printer Dock to give mobile device users a fast and easy way to produce color prints of the many images they capture. The $139 Kodak Photo Printer Dock, announced June 14, is compatible with Android and iOS devices. It also works with digital cameras and USB memory sticks […]